Railway car door protector



Jan. 3, 1950 P. J. HOGAN RAILWAY CAR DOOR PROTECTOR :s Sheets-sheaf 1Filed Feb. 12, l945 I .PZZ/ZCZ J Haydn,

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Pam/ Hogan, BY

Patented Jan. 3, 1950 U NIT ED STAT S; OF F I CE.

2,493,720 I 1 RAILWAY oannoon lnorno'roa Patrick J. Hogan, New Haven,Gonn.

Application February 12, 1945, SerialNo. j577;531

My invention relates to railway rolling stock,

and particularly to a means for protecting the doors of railwayhouse'cars from damage because of a shifting of the lading thereagainst'due to service movements of the car, which comprises the principalobject of the invention.

Another object of the invention is to so design the door protector sothat it may be installed upon new cars or upon cars already in service.

A further object of the invention is to provide a door protector in sucha manner that'either of two types of lading retaining means may be usedto protect the door from the shifting ofsaid lading,

A still further object of the invention is to provide a door protectorthat may be installed upon cars already in service without damage to.

any of the parts thereof.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in thefollowing description thereof. Referring now to the accompanyingdrawings forming part of this application and wherein like referencecharacters indicate like parts:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a railway car door frame showing myimproved door protection posts, with protecting bars, bands andauxiliary.

door inplace.

Figure 2 is a vertical, section on line, 2--2. of Figure 1 showing thecar door inplace,

Figure 3 is a broken horizontal section on line 3-3 of Figure 1 showingthe car door in; place;

Figure 4 is an enlarged perspective view of! a portion of a car dooropening.

Figure 5 is a view similar to figure 2 showing the protecting bars. asremovable from the outside of the doorway.

Figure 6' is a perspective view, similar tqFigure 4, of the modificationshown in Figure 5.

In the drawings, the door posts are indicated at I the door post anglesat 2 held to the door posts by means of bolts 3. Side wall sheathmg ofthe car is indicated at 4 and the, front 5,, and rear 6, door stopangles are secured to the side sheathing 4 and post angles 2 by means ofthe row of rivets indicated at 1. The front door stop angle 5 isprovided with a reflange 8 which functions as a portion of weathersealing means, and the rear door stop angle is provided with a portion 9of weather sealing means secured thereto, as by the rivets Ill. The dooris indicated at H and is of the usual sliding type, provided with frontl2 and rear l3 weather sealing means which are cooperative with thereflange 8 and sealing means 9, respectively, when the door is closed,to prevent dirt and other elements from 4 Claims. (Cl. 2030.)

entering theca-rbetween the vertical edges of the door and adjacent doorframe. The car side sills are indicated-at- M: upon which the door postsI and angle 2 rest, and the car side plate is shown at t5 which extendsacrossthe tops of the door and side postsof the car from end to=end ofthe car.

In cars having sliding doorsof the type just described, it is apparentthat shouldthe carbe loaded with a plastic lading or the like, whichmight: shift rather violently to one side -orthe other-during service,movements of the car, thatpart, of the lading adjacent the doors mayquite conceivably engage the door with. such violence that. the forcewould injure the door or ruin the sealing elements, -orboth, so; thatthe door could not be operated, .or. the'seals. would not. be tight, andthereby destroy a considerable portion of the utility of the door;

My invention, therefore, comprises a door protection post, preferably ofchannel-like form, with the edges of theflanges 20 and 2| thereofsecured, as, by welding- 22 and 2 3,respectively, to the door stop.angles; 5 and- 6 and the inner edge of the; door post angles 2 and Iprovide such a door protection. post for each door post of thecar. Itwill be noted that one, flange, 21' and the web 33 of; each; protectionpost is provided with inverted L.-sh aped slots 2,4 and that a portionof the material in. the web 33, which is. cut awayto. make the slot, isbent inwardly, asv shown at 25, at. right angles to said web, to providea sort of shelf at the bottom of the slot 24 The upperportion of theslot. 24 which extends across the flange 2i is slightly deeper than thethicknessof'anv ordinary 2 x- 4, whereas the portion ofsaid slot. in theweb 33 is slightly wider than the width of a 2 x 4, so. that the ends of2 x 4 pieces of lumber 34', of the proper length, extend across the dooropening from protection post to protection post and may be slidlaterally into the upper portions of opposite slots and then droppedinto the lower portions thereof where they reston the shelves 25 and arethereby held securely by gravity in the lower portions of the slots, To.protect certain types; of lading, as for example, barrels or largeboxes, from being shifted against the doors, these 2 x 4 protecting barsmay be suflicient. When, however, the lading is more plastic, such asbulk potatoes, or grain, it is obvious that an auxiliary door would berequired in addition to the 2 x 4s. Therefore, I have provided theauxiliary door which comprises a series of tongued and grooved boards 26secured together by the battens 21, and which auxiliary door may benailed to the 2 x 4 protecting bars with the vertical margins of saidauxiliary door resting against the flanges 2| of the protection posts,and the battens 21 positioned between said protection posts and againstsaid 2 x 4's.

Auxiliarydoor boards may be nafled directly to inside face of 2 x 4's soas to obtain a flush condition with inside lining of cars.

For those instances when the character of the lading permits, such, forexample, as relatively large boxes of light weight material, I haveprovided an alternative means to take the place or".

the 2 x 4 protecting bars. In Figures 1, 4 and 6 it will be noted that Ihave provided a series of vertically spaced slots 3|] in the web 23 andflange 2| of each door protection post.. These slots are for theapplication of handing iron strips extendable between said posts andwhich are found to be sumcient for protecting the door from larger unitsof lighter material.

In Figures and 6 I have shown the L-shaped slots 24 as facing theoutside of the car so that the 2 x 4s may be removed progressively fromthe outside of the car as the car is unloaded if such is necessary dueto the character of the lading. L-shaped slots may be arranged so that 2x 4s may be removed progressively from the inside of; car as well, asshown in Figures 1, 2 and 3.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the preferred form of theinvention, though it is to be understood that the invention is notlimited to the exact details of construction shown and described, as itis obvious that various modifications thereof, within the scope of theclaims, will occur to persons skilled in the art.

I claim:

1. For use in a railway car having a doorway between spaced postassemblies, each assembly comprising a vertical metallic member having aportion lying in a plane normal to said doorway and a metallic door stopsecured to said member and having a part substantially in the plane ofsaid portion, and a door for closing said opening engaging-said doorstop when' in closed position;

means to protect said 'door'from outward thrust of ladirig within thecar, said means comprising a verticalchannelmember facing each postassembly'. with'th'e flanges of saidc'hannels welded to said portion andpart, respectively, to provide reinforcements for said post assemblies,one flange 4, said web, and the slot in a flange of said membercommunicating with the slot in the web, said web slot being wider thansaid flange slot, the upper edges of said slots being substantially inthe same plane, whereby one end of a beam may be inserted laterallythrough said flange slot and dropped vertically into said web slot andbe supported by said shelf-like portion and retained in said opening bythe walls of the web opening.

3. A door protector for a railway car having a doorway between spacedpost assemblies and a door for closing said doorway; said protectorcomprising channel-shaped members having the flanges thereof secured tosaid asemblies, respectively, with the "webs thereof spaced from saidassemblies, the webs of said members being prodoorway between spacedpost assemblies and a of each channel provided with a-slot 'communieating with a 'slotin the web of the channel,"the slot in'the web beingwider than the slotin-the flange,,with the upper edges of the slotsbeing in of said member, a shelf-like portion extending I inwardly fromthe base of said slot normally to Thefollowing references are of recordin the member I vided with slots, a protector bar extending between saidmembers With the ends thereof installed within said slots so as, to besupported by the webs of the channel-shaped members and the depth of theslot in the web being less than the width of said web so that theunremoved portion of the webs of said members resist outward thrust of alading against said bar, a flange of each member being provided with aslot commum'cating With the upper part of said slot in the web thereof,the upper edges of said slots being in substantially the same plane, theslot in the web being wider than the slot in the flange, whereby theends of said protector bars may be inserted laterally through saidflange slots and dropped vertically into said web slots and retainedtherein by the walls thereof.

4. A door protector for a railway car having a door for closing saiddoorway; said protector comprising channel-shaped members having theflanges thereof secured to said assemblies, respectively, with the websthereof spaced from said vassemblies, the webs of said members beingprovided with slots of less depth than the width of said webs, a flangeof each member being provided'with a slot of less width than the slot inthe web, and communicating with the upper part of-a web slot, the upperedges of said slots lying in substantially the same plane, a protectorbar extending between said members with the ends thereof within saidslots so as to be supported by the webs of the channel-shaped membersand so members resist outward thrust of a lading against said bar.

PATRICK J. HOGAN.

REFERENCES CITED file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Name Date I Stanley Feb. 21, 1911 Monk Apr. 1,1919 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date hat" the unremoved portion ofthe webs of said Thomas Oct. 8, 1935 France 1934 I

